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Solving the Biomass Puzzle
A group of researchers at Iowa State University and the U.S Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory hope to develop the pieces of the biomass puzzle to create a clearer picture of what takes place within a plant and how that applies to its downstream uses as biomass.
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Getting a Better Measure of Spin with Diamond
Using thin slivers of diamond, scientists at Jefferson National Lab created a detector that can withstand the constant particle bombardment that some experiments generate to obtain the most accurate measurements to date from the CEBAF atom smasher.
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Nuclear Rule Breakers: Matthias Schindler
PECASE recipient shows how small exceptions help explain the inner workings of neutrons and protons.
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Berkeley Lab Scientists Brew Jet Fuel in One-Pot Recipe
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have engineered a strain of bacteria that enables a “one-pot” method for producing advanced biofuels from a slurry of pre-treated plant material.
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A Major Upgrade of the Lithium Tokamak Experiment at PPPL Will Explore Liquid Lithium as a First Wall for Hot Plasmas
A promising experiment that encloses hot, magnetically confined plasma in a full wall of liquid lithium is undergoing a $2 million upgrade at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL).
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What Biofuel Production Can Learn from the Zoo: Michelle A. O’Malley
PECASE recipient discovers gut enzymes that break woody plants into biofuel building blocks.
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Neutrons Tap into Magnetism in Topological Insulators at High Temperatures
A multi-institutional team of researchers has discovered novel magnetic behavior on the surface of a specialized material that holds promise for smaller, more efficient devices and other advanced technology.
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Ultra-fast X-ray Lasers Illuminate Elusive Atomic Spins
New x-ray technique reveals never-before-seen, trillionth-of-a-second magnetic fluctuations that transform the electronic and magnetic properties of materials.
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Energy Secretary Moniz Dedicates New Research Facility at Ames National Laboratory
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz emphasized the role of materials research in clean energy innovation Friday at the dedication of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames National Laboratory Sensitive Instrument Facility.
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Making Materials Out of Light: Jonathan Simon
PECASE recipient illuminates materials’ true nature.
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Large Hadron Collider Prepares to Deliver Six Times the Data
After months of winter hibernation, the Large Hadron Collider is once again smashing protons and taking data. The LHC will run around the clock for the next six months and produce roughly 2 quadrillion high-quality proton collisions, six times more than in 2015 and just shy of the total number of collisions recorded during the nearly three years of the collider’s first run.
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Visualizing the Lithiation of a Nanosized Iron-Oxide Material in Real Time
A team of researchers from Brookhaven National Lab, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Maryland, College Park, has developed an electron microscopy technique to visualize atomic-scale reaction pathways and track phase changes in lithium-ion battery materials.
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